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TalkBulls Forums _ Bulls Talk _ Bulls @ Celtics 04/18/09
Posted by: truthandbasketball Apr 17 2009, 09:25 AM
WHAT TIME IS IT??????????
GAME TIME BABY!!!!!!!
GO BULLS!!!!! 
Posted by: Chicago Bulls Franchise Apr 17 2009, 11:37 AM
Three reasons why we won't win tomorrow and has nothing to do with actually playing basketball..
1. The game is on ESPN
2. It's a matinee
3. It's not on TNT
PLEASE PLEASE For the sake of a win, I hope we get a game scheduled on TNT before this series is over, we always play well on that network and its thee best network to watch basketball on. I hate the ESPN announcers and ABC is a boresville channel.
Posted by: ChWRoCk2 Apr 18 2009, 10:32 AM
Ridiculous, don't blame it on being a matinee or on ESPN. If we lose its because of the players. Outside factors having nothing to do with it.
GO BULLS!
Posted by: Sanitarium Apr 18 2009, 11:06 AM
Rose is playing awesome... Making Noah look like an allstar
Posted by: Sanitarium Apr 18 2009, 12:11 PM
ROSE IS AMAZING. he is basically unstoppable right now... if we could just play better D in the paint we would be putting this game away right now.
Posted by: danman31 Apr 18 2009, 12:17 PM
I'm impressed with what the Bulls are showing. Gordon has been really quiet. You gotta think that changes.
Posted by: Sanitarium Apr 18 2009, 12:46 PM
Noah and Rose are keeping us in this one... I think gordon is trying a little too hard to get his points, he's passing up on dishing to open guys like Kirk in the corner
Posted by: Balta1701-B Apr 18 2009, 01:40 PM
36/11 ast for DR1.
11/17 for Noah.
Welcome to the playoffs kids.
Posted by: TeaLeafReaderII Apr 18 2009, 01:47 PM
Tyrus Thomas with a bunch of clutch jump shots in overtime...
Ben Gordon keeping the Bulls in the game in the fourth.
oh, and Rose is spectacular.
Posted by: RME JICO Apr 18 2009, 02:59 PM
Huge win for the Bulls. That was an awesome game.
Rose 
Thomas
Noah
Gordon
This is a completely different series now.
Posted by: Sanitarium Apr 18 2009, 04:11 PM
Hey fellas don't forget to give some credit to Brad Miller with 12 rebounds...
Miller/Noah - 29 Rebounds
Perkins/Davis/Powe/Moore - 23 Rebounds
Posted by: Balta1701-B Apr 18 2009, 07:24 PM
Most Points by Rookie 1st Playoff Game, NBA History
Derrick Rose, Bulls 36 2009
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bucks 36 1970
Wilt Chamberlain, Warriors 35 1960
Tim Duncan, Spurs 32 1998
Posted by: Balta1701-B Apr 18 2009, 07:34 PM
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-39-94/Derrick-Rose-Breaks-Out.html
Posted by: Chicago Bulls Franchise Apr 18 2009, 08:11 PM
Oh yeah.. Derrick Rose has now officially become a superstar, in case it wasn't obvious enough.
Posted by: truthandbasketball Apr 18 2009, 10:50 PM
What A Game!!!!! Thank You God!!!!! D-Rose was on FIRE and proved that he has what it takes to be named with the best of them!!!! Much credit to the entire team for the great effort!!!!! I'm about to watch the replay on CSN at 12:30am because I still can't believe it and want to savor this one!!!!! Go Bulls!!!!! 
Posted by: Sanitarium Apr 18 2009, 11:41 PM
that was pretty interesting... especially the part about BG wearing down Ray Allen. if he struggles like he did today for the rest of the series (which wouldnt suprise me, he came out cold at the beginning of last post season too) i think we have a shot at winning any game, any location
EDIT: wait, apparently that was another article i read... lol
Posted by: TeaLeafReaderII Apr 19 2009, 11:08 AM
it may be a little early, but after their first playoffgame with any significant minutes. Tyrus showed he's been getting transfusions ice into his veins... and Lamarcus aldridged completely choked away any chance the Blazers had of winning a home playoff game.
Maybe there was a reason why Skiles refused to talk to him at lunch. He recognized that he is player that wilts in the big moments (see game against LSU).
Tyrus for all his much discussed faults has a sack and wants the ball in the big games.
I was pissed as hell at Tyrus's minutes... but Vinny had him in the game with 5 fouls for all of overtime. If Vinny had handled it differently chances are he would have fouled out... gotta hand it to him.
Posted by: GreatScott82 Apr 19 2009, 02:08 PM
Derek Rose- AMAZING! What a great win yesterday. . . Lets steal another one tommorow!
Posted by: Sanitarium Apr 19 2009, 06:02 PM
For the most part I think Vinny coached a pretty good game
Posted by: Balta1701-B Apr 20 2009, 10:13 AM
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-39-96/David-Thorpe-Loves-Joakim-Noah-s-Foul.html
And what's he doing? He's fouling the jump shooter, as in, he's breaking one of basketball's oldest axioms. With the game on the line. Potentially negating the high point of post-Jordan Bulls history.
I don't know what Noah's teammate Kirk Hinrich was feeling at the moment of that play -- was he exasperated at Noah, or the referee? -- but he was surely disgusted. Watch his body language. Just fed up. Announcers, fans, media ... everyone seemed to agree this was a disastrously good example of what's wrong with Joakim Noah.
Noah didn't help matters by standing there holding his head in disbelief at the call. He didn't look like a guy who knew what he was doing.
And yet somewhere the smartest basketball guy I know, David Thorpe, cheered. When Noah fell to the Bulls on draft day 2007, Thorpe told me that he thought the Bulls would win a championship with him.
The kinds of things that made him say that, believe it or not, were at the heart of this play.
"Sure," says Thorpe, "I wish he didn't come down quite so aggressively. But you're playing the defending champions on the road. This is a Paul Pierce jumper from the free throw line. You can't play solid. You have to make a play."
The irony, he points out, is that this play is right out of Tom Thibodeau's Boston Celtics' playbook. One thing that Thorpe and his IMG Academies colleague Mike Moreau have been noticing all year about the Celtics is that they do foul jump shooters. Not constantly, but more than most good defensive teams.
And to Moreau and Thorpe, that's OK.
"The reality is that you need to contest shots so aggressively all the time," Thorpe explains. "That's what Joakim does. You ask him to go hard, and he goes hard. The Celtics, too. And you can't go that hard and not cross the line once in a while. Coach Moreau said it's like asking someone to run 28 miles, and then getting mad because they ran 28 miles and one foot."
Posted by: ZoomSlowik Apr 20 2009, 10:48 AM
Maybe there was a reason why Skiles refused to talk to him at lunch. He recognized that he is player that wilts in the big moments (see game against LSU).
Tyrus for all his much discussed faults has a sack and wants the ball in the big games.
I was pissed as hell at Tyrus's minutes... but Vinny had him in the game with 5 fouls for all of overtime. If Vinny had handled it differently chances are he would have fouled out... gotta hand it to him.
LOL, whatever. Tyrus was a complete non-factor for the bulk of the game, suddenly he hits a few jumpers and he's a big-game player. I'm glad he hit them, but let's not go crazy here...
Posted by: TeaLeafReaderII Apr 20 2009, 03:49 PM
Come on. You're honestly telling me that when some other than Ben wants the ball and actually does something with it during a big moment at the end of game that it isn't time to celebrate?
And a non-factor offensively and on the glass? Yes. Defensively, he was significantly better than miller and TiT.
Posted by: Chicago Bulls Franchise Apr 20 2009, 04:11 PM
I was shocked when Tyrus took that long distance shot in overtime. It was almost a three with a man in his face and he made it! Humongous shots in OT. He is a difference maker on defense because him and Noah can block shots. Brad Miller is a banger and gets in position to rebound. Now just think if Johnny Salmons got it going tonight along with Gordon and Rose? If that happens, look out Boston!
Posted by: ZoomSlowik Apr 20 2009, 05:04 PM
And a non-factor offensively and on the glass? Yes. Defensively, he was significantly better than miller and TiT.
There's a difference between celebrating and trying to validate his entire career/selection off 5 minutes of game time.
He still has major flaws, that said I'm happy he isn't a total liability anymore and that he can be an asset as long as the perimeter players still carry the bulk of the scoring load.
Posted by: danman31 Apr 20 2009, 05:20 PM
What's interesting is that Noah won a game in Toronto, I think, with a blocked jumper at the buzzer. It was a similar play, but in that case it was actually his man taking the shot.
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